by Sujit D'Mello
March 26, 2025
In this episode of the Azure podcast, Sujit and the team, including Cale, Russell, and Cynthia, are joined by special guest Matteo Pagani, a Cloud Solutions Architect in the Tech Strategy team at Microsoft. Matteo provides insights into the agentic world of Co-pilot, explaining how agents can enhance business processes and improve efficiency. Tune in to learn about the practical applications of these technologies and how they can be integrated into existing workflows.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode515.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/qMJ88BLbTVo
Resources:
- Overview of Microsoft 365 Copilot extensibility:
- Building declarative agents with Visual Studio Code, Copilot Studio and Agent Builder:
- Building custom engine agents with Visual Studio Code and Copilot Studio:
- My blog with some fun experiments with multi-agents scenarios:
Other updates:
Announcing GA for Azure Container Apps Serverless GPUs | Microsoft Community Hub
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-deep-reasoning-agent-flows-copilot-studio-charles-lamanna-n1zxc/
Let's try GitHub Copilot Agent mode in VS Code to build a FULL app!
by Sujit D'Mello
December 24, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
August 15, 2024
Azure Open AI is widely used in industry but there are number of security aspects that must be taken into account when using the technology. Luckily for us, Audrey Long, a Software Engineer at Microsoft, security expert and renowned conference speaker, gives us insights into securing LLMs and provides various tips, tricks and tools to help developers use these models safely in their applications.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode502.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/64Achcz97PI
Resources:
AI Tooling:
- Azure AI Tooling
- to detect and block prompt injection attacks, including a new model for identifying indirect prompt attacks before they impact your model, coming soon and now available in preview in Azure AI Content Safety.
- to detect “hallucinations” in model outputs, coming soon.
- to steer your model’s behavior toward safe, responsible outputs, coming soon.
- to assess an application’s vulnerability to jailbreak attacks and to generating content risks, now available in preview.
- to understand what model inputs, outputs, and end users are triggering content filters to inform mitigations, coming soon, and now available in preview in Azure OpenAI Service.
- AI Defender for Cloud
- AI Security Posture Management
- AI Workloads
- AI Red Teaming Tool
AI Development Considerations:
- AI Assessment from Microsoft
- Microsoft Responsible AI Processes
- Define Use Case and Model Architecture
- Content Filtering System
- Azure OpenAI Service includes a content filtering system that works alongside core models, including DALL-E image generation models.
- Additional classifiers are available for detecting jailbreak risks and known content for text and code.
- Red Teaming the LLM
- Create a Threat Model with OWASP Top 10
Other updates:
by Sujit D'Mello
February 9, 2024
by Sujit D'Mello
August 30, 2023
by Sujit D'Mello
July 7, 2023
Cloud Solution Architect, Dr. Linda Sheard, joins Russell and Sujit for a primer on Azure Open AI. Linda breaks down the service and provides context on how it can be used for the typical scenario where a customer wants to reason over their own data.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode466.mp3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/nDcIWvHa43s
Resources: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/openai/overview
Other updates:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/container-registry/tutorial-registry-cache
by Sujit D'Mello
August 27, 2021
by Russell Young
December 21, 2018
Developer Evangelist David Gristwood and Cloud Solution Architect Robin Lester, from Microsoft UK, are enthusiastic about the AI hacks they do with partners to help them quickly realize an application that uses Azure's AI capabilities. They discuss common patterns and tips and tricks from their various hacks.


Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode259.mp3
Transcript: https://www.videoindexer.ai/accounts/aca83d23-620b-46d6-beec-e920bff88847/videos/d4f658c21b/
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
by Cale Teeter
June 29, 2018
by Sujit D'Mello
April 13, 2018
Senior Product Marketing Manager Sonya Koptyev talks to us about the Azure AI Platform and give us some great pointers on how to get started with AI.

Media file: https://azpodcast.blob.core.windows.net/episodes/Episode224.mp3
Other updates:
Following last month's announcement of zone-redundant database support, Azure SQL Database is further expanding the power of databases and elastic pools by including read scale-out support in the Premium and Business Critical service tiers.
This capability redirects the read-only client connections to one of the automatically provisioned HA replicas and effectively doubles the compute capacity of the database or elastic pool at no additional charge. This is ideal for load balancing of complex analytical workloads without affecting the primary OLTP workload.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-of-read-scale-out-support/
Azure DevTest Labs is now available in Azure Government.
With this availability, US government agencies and their partners can modernize their legacy infrastructure to build fast, easy, and lean environments.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-source-volume-26/
Offline media import for Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/offline-media-import-for-azure/
Achieving GDPR compliance in the cloud with Microsoft Azure
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/achieving-gdpr-compliance-in-the-cloud-with-microsoft-azure/
Three common analytics use cases with Microsoft Azure Databricks
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/three-critical-analytics-use-cases-with-microsoft-azure-databricks/